Deep heartbreak since reading the news.The Master is gone.Everything I type, is quickly deleted,because there is a bottleneck of emotionsbetween my brains and my fingers.It's a tall order to sum upeverything this stranger means to me.Vanessa Friedman of NYT, is not alone(not by a long shot)when she describes him,"a formative influence on my life."

Remembering Lee Alexander McQueen this week.​Born March 17, 1969, he would have been 46 this week. Exquisite, thrilling, grotesque, and never, ever, ever dull - his work continues to mesmerize and invoke emotion.

Savage Beauty, a posthumous exhibit of McQueen's work debuted at the Museum of Metropolitan Art in New York in 2011. It traveled to London's Victoria and Albert Museum in 2015, thanks to a Change.org petition. It was their most popular exhibit on record. The video above is an overview of the exhibit. Below, more detail about the man and his work.

In his own words:

I relate more to that cold, austere asceticism of the Flemish masters, and I also love the macabre thing you see in Tudor and Jacobean portraiture.

For me what I do is artistic expression channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium.

Perhaps you can find it online already, but personally, a maximalist legend like this, requires the big screen! Coming to Chicago May 15! Click here for your hometown schedule. Here is a little clip from another favorite, Ari Seth Cohen of Advanced Style: